Abstract

RUBIO HERNANDEZ, Alfonso. The street, coffee and brothel. Spaces of sociability in the work of Pedro Herreros (1890-1937), an immigrant spanish poet in Buenos Aires. Hist. Caribe [online]. 2016, vol.11, n.28, pp.77-108. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.28.2016.4.

In the early twentieth century, the art scene in Buenos Aires encouraged the creation of a debate and criticism public sphere and set up a space that articulates private and institutional initiative with the sociability of the art world in places such as squares, parks or libraries, cafes, clubs, bookstores or literary societies. Autobiographical traits that spread throughout Pedro Herreros' poetry and his unprotected emigrant gaze serve here to describe the political and social context of the time, in which spaces like the street, cafés and brothels led to the expansion of new forms sociability

Keywords : Places of sociability; Buenos Aires; twentieth century; poetry; Pedro Herreros.

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